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SABI mix 3 . NEW 2022

Souns - Quiet Love
L'abri + Éveline - Il Pleut Des Abeilles
Mount Maxwell - Howe Sound
Souns - Sun Inside The Sun (Loscil Rmx)
Overseas Territory - IV
Moby - LA7
Satoshi Ashikawa - Still Sky
Matt Robertson - Jorbit
Loscil - Monument Destroyers
Floating Points - Elaenia
Michael Red - Sun Daughter (Quiet Emotions Version)
L'abri + Éveline - Parcelles
Cliff Martinez - Maybe You're My Puppet
Loscil - Orlova
Airspace - Fields
Souns - Losing Energy
Goldmund - Sumi-E

this mix is the third of eight that have been used in a clinical setting by SABI Mind for over three years now. it has also been used by close friends and myself, many times over too ..over and over, as it was carefully designed for repeat use. to entrain to. to reach for as a reliable tool. for the purposes of meditation, clearing, unwinding, calming, relaxing, deepening, inner explorations & journeys, grounding, centering, focusing, resting, drifting, quieting, sleeping, transforming, transporting, healing and other related purposes.

it stands on it's own as a contemporary ambient mix and also fully functions in the sound wellness realms. it keeps the promise of holding space for the listener the entire time, without any blips or trips or artful overly expressive side-quests, just slowly and reliably modulating and evolving and unfolding.

'NEW 2022' is anchored & grounded in the current "now" and what is fresh 🌿 and what is next (from what current potentials exist). this comes with reference and acknowledgement of the history and stories that led to the present, and also looking to the future - conjuring good intentions and good direction setting (pathways & plans) from where the current placement is. many thanks and acknowledgements to the absolutely perfectly executed music made by all the artist's in the mix - a decent handful of them being local as well.

immensely happy to share this mix now, more broadly, with everyone. please enjoy, be well, and be good ❤️

3 . NEW 2022

SABI mix 2 . moving SHADOW

Crimson - Sa Forme (loop 1)
Nils Frahm - Sonar
Ozzy - Gestures
Laraaji - Ocean Flow (Seahawks Deep Drift Mix)
Loscil - Fern And Robin
Souns - Green (re)
Billow Observatory - Pankalia
Marsen Jules - Coeur Saignant
Chihei Hatakeyama - Bonfire On The Field
Satoshi Ashikawa - Landscape of Wheels
Airspace - Amsterdam
Sean Evans - First Drone In New Apartment
Mount Maxwell - Ocealism
Danna & Clement - Avening
L'abri + Éveline - Paul, Je Te Berce Sur La Lune
N Nao - Tout Va Bien
Evynid Kang - Petrified Wood
Airspace - GP
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Rocket
Autechre - VLetrmx
Moby - LA2
Arvo Part - Fur Alina

this mix is the second of eight that have been used in a clinical setting by SABI Mind for over three years now. it has also been used by close friends and myself, many times over too ..over and over, as it was carefully designed for repeat use. to entrain to. to reach for as a reliable tool. for the purposes of meditation, clearing, unwinding, calming, relaxing, deepening, inner explorations & journeys, grounding, centering, focusing, resting, drifting, quieting, sleeping, transforming, transporting, healing and other related purposes.

it stands on it's own as a contemporary ambient mix and also fully functions in the sound wellness realms. it keeps the promise of holding space for the listener the entire time, without any blips or trips or artful overly expressive side-quests, just slowly and reliably modulating and evolving and unfolding.

it's called 'moving SHADOW' it digs a bit deeper into engaging with, and ultimately separating and clearing, shadow elements. it's not super heavy or intense in this way, it's somewhat subtle and the mix also still retains it's primary universal purpose of use - it's just one notch or two towards this specific goal (compared to the first mix).  many thanks and acknowledgements to the absolutely perfectly executed music made by all the artist's in the mix - a decent handful of them being local as well.

immensely happy to share this mix now, more broadly, with everyone.
please enjoy, be well, and be good ❤️

2 . Moving SHADOW

SABI mix 1 . CLASSIC abstractions

Tymelapse - We Became Strangers.. Again
Moby - LA3
Stanislav Vdovin - Vague Memories
Elsa Hewitt - Massive Charade
Navin Sahjpaul - Heart
Sean Evans - Ambient For J Buttery
Synkro - Empty Walls
Nils Frahm - Four Hands
Colleen - Echoes and Coral
Kodomo - Orange Ocean (Loscil Rmx)
Nils Frahm - Momentum
Goldmund - Downward
L'abri + Éveline - Pagaies
Synkro - Last Breath
Marsen Jules - Gueule De Loup
Matt Robertson - Want
Nils Frahm - Fundamental Values
Sean Evans - Lullaby For P
Souns - Rain (Loraine)
Souns - Raine

this mix is the first of eight that have been used in a clinical setting by SABI Mind for over three years now. it has also been used by close friends and myself, many times over too ..over and over, as it was carefully designed for repeat use. to entrain to. to reach for as a reliable tool. for the purposes of meditation, clearing, unwinding, calming, relaxing, deepening, inner explorations & journeys, grounding, centering, focusing, resting, drifting, quieting, sleeping, transforming, transporting, healing and other related purposes.

it stands on it's own as a contemporary ambient mix and also fully functions in the sound wellness realms. it keeps the promise of holding space for the listener the entire time, without any blips or trips or artful overly expressive side-quests, just slowly and reliably modulating and evolving and unfolding.

it's called classic abstractions because, it being the first mix in the series, we start at the beginning and honour the foundations and feelings of classic ambient music ..as we also abstract from them (staying present in the now, not just in the past). many thanks and acknowledgements to the absolutely perfectly executed music made by all the artist's in the mix - a decent handful of them being local as well.

immensely happy to share this mix now, more broadly, with everyone.
please enjoy, be well, and be good ❤️

1 . CLASSIC Abstractions

subtractions and abstractions from
'Mount Dilaudid' by @mahmood-schricker and @michaelred
mahmoodschricker.bandcamp.com/album/mount-dilaudid

four versions, created with knowing nods to tradition
- kept raw & immediate, with little pre-emptive thought, and no backwards movements or second-guessing. reacting on instinct and first inspirations. "live" or the spirit of "live".
- no new sounds. only source sounds from the original tracks
- maintaining the original structure of each track in most cases. and when not the case - breaking that structure boldly, but locking to the first new structure mapped out.
- heavy on the hypnotics, delays and reverbs
- heavy-handed on the subtraction. many principle elements of the original work were fully removed immediately, to force a deeper exploration and revealing of what's underneath and beside.
- making sure to actually experiment and come with new ideas and methods. and when using established methods and sounds, doing so respectfully and knowingly.

deepest respect the original dub innovators, and to all who push the sound. thank you to Mahmood, and acknowledgement to the music and players which inspired him. these dubs would not exist with out the originals they abstract from.

mixed, produced and (roughly) mastered by Michael Red
photo by Rojin Surreah

Parisa DUB (ambient)

https://hothamsoundrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/gateways

HONESTY

RAIN (loraine)

RESPECT (buffalo)

LOVE (eagle)

hummingbird // ocean sway

respect to the original artist
http://www.hildurness.com

hildur guðnadóttir - unveiled (souns rmx)

Souns - Untouched (taken from the forthcoming album Aquamarine). More Info: subtempo.com/aquamarine

Untouched is the first single from Aquamarine, the upcoming debut album by @Souns-3 , an ambient project by the well recognized Vancouver-based producer and dj Michael Red | @michaelred. With Souns, Red explores themes that are reflective of the natural world, the unseen world, outer space, and transcendence. Performances are largely intuitive and improvised, sometimes guided. The audio is an immersive world of deep sonic output, lucid introspection, and seemingly endless layers of sound. Typically there are no "drums" in Souns material, though there might be a detectable pulse. As heard on the first album track “Untouched," Aquamarine leaves an unmistakable mark on the listener, reverberating in the mind long after listening. The new album is out December 8th on Subtempo Records.

Cover artwork by Yasmin Lever.

Aquamarine

Untouched

Souns - Aquamarine - 6 - Untouched

ISLA19 - @souns-3 (re). The last track from just under 100 minutes of deep meditative ambient textures, tones and slow morphings. Working with themes and methods of healing sound and sacred frequencies. Almost the entire ‘lights’ album combined with half of the ‘scenarios for the real self’ album - all re-edited and refined and re-mastered, in some cases to such a degree that a lot of it sounds like brand new work. the title “(re)” is partially short for “(revisted)”. 

Edition of 100 C92 cassettes. Available June 23rd through:
www.isla.site
www.isla.bandcamp

Souns - Frozen Ocean4

We are delighted to share with you this compilation to join in the celebrations for this year's Piano Day. With contributions by @memotone, @themountainhowl, @michaelred, @philipdanielpiano, @brooksi-1, @liu_erd and Alejandro Bento as @axel-toben. 

All of these individual tunes were created exclusively for this year's Piano Day by friends and frequent collaborators of Subtempo. Coming from different musical backgrounds and levels of technique, each of these artists share their own touch and relationship to this quintessential instrument. 

Thank you to all the artists involved, thank you for loving this beautiful instrument so much too and in such different and unique ways each one of you and thank you to all the piano lovers out there. 

Join in, download it and share it with your friends. Find out more about this inspiring event started by Nils Frahm on pianoday.org 

Happy 2019 Piano Day!

More info: https://subtempo.com/releases/semitone/

Free Download

Michael Red - Labrador (parts 1 & 2) (Piano Day 2019 Exclusive)

The EP opens with a remaster of the original tune. Massive frequencies interspaced with moments of silence that delineate the vastness of the sounds used, evoking the distance between celestial bodies in outer space. In Souns’ own words: 'Sun Inside The Sun' imagines a world within the sun that has its own sun and full landscape and environment, and how that inner-world might not necessarily be hot or share the same characteristics as the sun’s surface, similar to how the eye of a tornado is actually calm and peaceful. Imagining an opposite or somehow mirrored world. What the sun is to us on earth, and what might be the equivalent from the sun’s perspective? The main sound in the song I see as mimicking the massive power of the sun, a force and scale that we can’t actually fathom, pushing against a threshold. While creating the work I probably imagined the negative space in the track representing the opposite nature of the sun’s sun, the opposite of great power and full presence, like a negative image.

Heralding on relationships that have developed over the years, @michaelred handpicked @synkro, @loscil and @phaeleh to remix his ambient material that he composes under the @souns-3 alias. Michael has shared the studio, or the stage with all three of them in multiple occasions, making this collaboration a natural continuation of their work together.

‘Souns - Sun Inside The Sun (The Remixes)’ is a collection of 4 unique reworks of Souns’ original song ‘Sun Inside The Sun’ taken from the Aquamarine album released on Subtempo on December 2017.

Souns - Sun Inside The Sun (Original Mix) Remastered

Ambient Parks, Vol. 3

Quiet Love

vancouver-based music producer, composer, collaborator, DJ & Live

releases with: mood hut, hotham sound, isla, xpq?, new kanada, modern math, mutek_rec, subtempo, debacle, beacon sound, babel, dsms, south fork sound, king deluxe, low indigo, chapel sound, ..

sound wellness mixs, releases & live sessions : Light Blues
label & events & studio lead for: @low-indigo
active project w/ @ultimaesuna : Oro Azul
active project w/ @napmusick : LA FE
active collaboration w/ @tsimka
active collaboration w/ @donna-dada
ambient alias: @souns-3

founder of @lightasound
inactive project w/ gabrial saloman: @chambers-theta
+10 years former collaborator w/ @tanya-tagaq
+10 years former curator for @newformsfestival
curator for the inception years of slowtempo stage at @bass-c0ast
boilerroom 2019: https://youtu.be/6KGQi6NBxJ8

major influences include: dub music, soundsystem culture & origins, all nature & the natural world, water, bird songs, the unseen world, transcendence, evolution, movements towards balance & harmony, resonance, community, transformation